Nephew of loudmouth Carl Paladino shows how to keep mouth shut

Dan82 · Oct 13, 2010

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local...rl_paladino_shows_how_to_keep_mouth_shut.html

Unlike his loose-lipped Uncle Carl, Jeff Hannon kept his mouth shut Tuesday.

The gay nephew of GOP gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino spent the day hiding inside his parents' upstate home, ditching his duties as a campaign aide.

"I have no comment right now," Hannon told the Daily News when reached on his cell phone.

"I don't want my face to be all over the newspaper over this."

Hannon never ventured outside the two-story house in Kenmore, just outside Buffalo, on the day after Paladino mentioned his sexual orientation while parrying charges of homophobia.

Hannon bristled at the attention caused by his uncle's comments before ending his brief conversation with The News.

Paladino - under fire after a Sunday speech where he said homosexuality is "not the example that we should be showing our children" - revealed Monday that his nephew is gay...

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arl Paladino's openly gay nephew -- whom the candidate points to as proof he's no homophobe -- said yesterday he was "very offended" by his uncle's anti-gay rants.

Jeff Hannon, 23, a staffer for the Paladino campaign, also hasn't shown up at work since the bomb-throwing GOP gubernatorial hopeful made his caustic comments about homosexuality, one of Hannon's co-workers told The Post.

In a brief phone interview yesterday, Hannon, in his first public remarks on the incident, told The Post, "Obviously, I'm very offended by his comments."

Hannon said he had no further comments "right now," before hanging up...

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Nephew of loudmouth Carl Paladino shows how to keep mouth shut

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